Japanese Ranking: Princess Peach: Showtime! beats Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Rise of the Ronin

Via Famitsu came the weekly ranking of the best-selling games in Japan in physical format, which sees in the first four positions as many new releases recently released, that is Princess Peach: Showtime!Dragon’s Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, and Dragon Quest X Online: The Door to the Future and the Sleeping Girl.

The new exclusive for Nintendo Switch took first place with 77,562 total copies, while Dragon’s Dogma 2 placed second with 68,592 units, not too far from the 64,646 copies totaled by Rise of the Ronin. With a wide gap, in fourth place we find the packaged version of the expansion The Door to the Future and the Sleepling Girl of Dragon Quest

We see the complete top 10 (total units since publication are indicated in brackets):

1. [NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo, 03/22/24) – 77,562 (new)
2. [PS5] Dragon’s Dogma 2 (Capcom, 03/22/24) – 68,592 (new)
3. [PS5] Rise of the Ronin (SIE, 03/22/24) – 64,646 (new)
4. [NSW] Dragon Quest
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,276 (5,758,176)
6. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 8,118 (1,795,584)
7. [PS4] Dragon Quest
8. [PS5] Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix, 02/29/24) – 7,121 (305,756)
9. [NSW] Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 02/16/24) – 6,987 (131,428)
10. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,563 (3,476,939)

For an overview of sales of games in digital format, we refer you to the latest ranking drawn up by the eShop.

Nintendo Switch is once again unstoppable

As for hardware sales, for the umpteenth time Nintendo Switch is the best-selling console, with a grand total of 60,828 units sold in the last week, of which 46,851 were of the OLED model alone. PS5 is in second place with 27,788 units overall, most of which are the Standard version with player. Let’s see the ranking below:

1. OLED Switches – 46,851 (6,915,823)
2. PlayStation 5 – 24,183 (4,694,730)
3. Switch Lite – 7,826 (5,785,403)
4. Switches – 6,151 (19,749,638)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,605 (743,987)
6. Xbox Series
7. Xbox Series S – 402 (306,008)
8. PlayStation 4 – 250 (7,924,660)
9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 9 (1,192,900)